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CURIOUS 



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ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES 



Concerning the Resettlement of the Seed of Abraham in 

Syria and Arabia, with Mathematical and Geographical 

Scripture Proofs. 



By MAJOR SCOTT PHILLIPS, London, 



TOGETHER WITH AN ARTICLE ON 

ISRAEL AND THE ANTICHRIST, 



Showing the relationship that will exist between the 
Man of Sin and the Israelites. 



By JOSEPH A. SEISS, D. D., Philadelphia. 

CHICAGO : 

THOMAS WILSON, Publisher. 

188 Monroe Street. 



A PAPER 

ON SOME 

CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES 

CONCERNING THE RE-SETTLEMENT OF THE SEED OF 
ABRAHAM IN SYRIA AND ARABIA, WITH MATHE- 
MATICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SCRIPTURE 
PROOFS. 



READ BEFORE THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF SCIENCE AT ABERDEEN, 

SEPT. 16th, 1869, 



BY MAJOR J. SCOTT PHILLIPS. 



ALSO AN EXTRACT CONCERNING 

ISRAEL AND THE ANTICHRIST, 

BY REV. JOSEPH A. SEISS, D. D., 

PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMMUNION, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



CHICAGO : 

Thos. Wilson, Publisher, 188 Monroe Street 

1879. 

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SHEWING THE 

RESETTLEMENT ofthe JEWS 




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the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 



CURIOUS IND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES, 

* 
To the President and Members of the British 
Association of Science : 

Perhaps it may be permitted me to observe, that 
circumstances of discovery have laid upon me the duty 
of appearing in your presence to-day, in order that I 
might read before this great assembly a paper upon 
some curious and original matter concerning the future 
civilization and settlement of the seed of Abraham 
within the borders of Syria, and Arabia. And upon so 
vast and important a subject I could not have ventured 
to speak, had I not been guided to the consideration and 
combination of some very precise mathematical and 
geographical facts, which I trust may only need to be 
exemplified and simply explained, to obtain j'our recog- 
nition as realities, and jour application of them, as may 
best suit your views, to a variety ot useful purposes. 

To proceed, however, with my present duty; I would 
observe, that possibly there exists no need for my detail- 
ing at any length the present condition of the countries 
which we have mentioned. We know that Syria has 
been a land flowing with milk and honey, but that it is 
now waste and desolate. We know that Arabia may be 
generally described as a waste and howling wilderness ; 
that Syria has for centuries been trodden beneath the 



4. CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES. 

hoof of the Turk : Arabia trodden by the feet of the 
wandering Arab: While both alike have lost all tokens 
of civilization, existing at this day wilder the decadence 
of the Turkish empire and the very dregs of the Mahom- 
medan religion. We know also, that the seed of 
Abraham, under the general name of Jews, have been 
and still are scattered throughout the world ; and yet 
they have been called the chosen people, and Arabia 
bordering upon Syria may be spoken of as the very 
cradle of the human race. 

Who that has careered along the Ked Sea, gazing on 
desert shores where even the trading Arab dares not 
land, who that has numbered the stones of Zion — and 
have we not all been enabled to do so by the means of 
that beautiful art, Photography ? — who, that has the 
civilization of his species at heart, and has compared 
our glorious Britain, cultivated like a garden, with the 
barren sands of Syria and Arabia, but must wish for the 
time and the means whereby the sands of the wilderness 
shall be watered, and the desert shall rejoice and blos- 
som as the rose. 

And if, among the various wonderful developments of 
the days in which we live, a new development can be 
produced even out of a very, very old book, and if such 
can be brought to bear upon the lands we have been 
speaking of, is it not worthy of scientific pursuit to in- 
quire upon this subject ; and while Layard has been 
digging into that book, and digging up foundations, and 
producing things new and old, and while Rawlinson has 
been deciphering names and dates, which also illustrate 



CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES. 5 

the value of that old, old book, may it not be permitted 
to us to turn to our geographical maps, and turn to the 
pages ot what is written, and, comparing things past, 
present, and to come, see if we cannot also decipher 
somewhat amid the latitudes and longitudes, the eleva- 
tions and depressions, the river and coast lines, the sites 
of cities and of plains, which may throw light upon the 
return of civilization to Syria and Arabia, the return oi 
the Jews to their own land, and their re-settlement upon 
that land, amid fertility, and wealth, and science, and 
all that dignifies and exalts the human kind ? 

In the maps we have the pleasure to submit to your 
inspection, it is proposed to show the actual boundaries 
of the whole extent of the earth's surface which is to be 
re-inhabited by the seed of Abraham, fixing those 
boundaries by the needful quotations — then the bearing, 
line, and centre of construction for the orderly re-settle- 
ment throughout the said extent, the same to be proved 
by mathematical proportions — then the geographical 
alterations which the formation of Syria will admit, 
illustrating the same with the effects of such geographi- 
cal alterations — and lastly, we would carry out their 
effects even upon the tongue of the Egyptian Sea, the 
Sea of Suez, and upon the Nile and land of Egypt. 

Let us, then, draw attention to the geographical map 
No. 1 of Syria and Arabia, and refer to the record which 
tells us that when Abraham was dwelling in Canaan, 
between Bethel and Hai, about ten Koman miles north 
of Jerusalem, it was said to him (Genesis xiii. 14), "Lift 
up now thine eyes and look Irom the place where thou 



6 CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES. 

art, northward and southward, and eastward and west- 
ward. For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I 
give it, and to thy seed forever." 

But as this was only a general, and an indefinite, 
though magnificent declaration, we must go farther to 
ascertain the precise boundaries of this promised land. 
And so, turning to the 18th verse of the 15th chapter, 
where God covenants with Abraham, saying, " Unto 
thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt 
unto the great river, the river Euphrates," (evidently 
contrasting the one river with the other,) we take the 
Nile and Euphrates to aid us in our search for boun- 
daries, and are thus far aided on the north and south. 

From Genesis we proceed to the 31st verse of the 
23rd chapter of Exodus, where we read upon the same 
subject, the promise made through Moses to the seed of 
Abraham. " I will set thy bounds from the Reel Sea 
even unto the Sea of the Philistines, and from the 
desert unto the river." And here we gain the Red Sea 
as the great southern boundary, stretching its line up to 
the river Nile ; and for a western boundary, we have 
the Great Sea, Mediterranean, or Sea of the Philistines. 
The expression " from the desert unto the river," most 
probably applied merely to the first partial settlement 
in the promised land; and in that case, but a small por- 
tion of the Red Sea formed a short boundary. 

But lest we should be lost in the idea that it was 
only that partial settlement detailed in the 34th chapter 
of the book of Numbers which was proposed, let us, 
bearing in mind the grand boundaries for Hie full-grown. 



CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES. 7 

expansion of the promises, turn to the 24th verse of the 
11th chapter of Deuteronomy, wherein God, speaking 
by Moses to the children of Israel, describes their full 
inheritance, saying, "Every place whereon the soles ot 
your feet shall tread shall be yours : from the wilderness 
and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even 
unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be." Now, rule 
a line from the northern roots of Lebanon to the south- 
ern roots of Sinai in the wilderness, and will not a per- 
pendicular thereto point out the uttermost sea to be the 
East Sea, the Sea ol Oman ? And the uttermost sea, 
opposite the river Euphrates, is it not the Red Sea ? 

And therefore as by our geographical map, we presume 
to judge that the Euphrates, the Mediterranean, the Nile 
at the prolongation of the Sea of Suez, the Eed Sea, 
and the Sea of Oman, and of course, though not des- 
cribed, the Gulf of Persia, (surrounding all Syria and 
Arabia,) are proved to be the boundaries of the promised 
land ; while we will next proceed to consider ancient 
land measures, and endeavor with mathematical pre- 
cision to strengthen the fixity of the external bounda- 
ries, and go on with measurements therein. 

But secondly : For these purposes we require above 
all a standard land measure ; and to obtain that is diffi- 
cult, because the Scripture measure, the cubit — (and 
the reed of 6 cubits, each cubit a cubit and a span) — is 
hardly to be obtained, that is directly, with any certainty, 
so great are the differences between the best and wisest 
calculators. But if we compare three different con- 
structions mentioned in different parts of the same great 



8 CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES. 

Book, the oblation of Ezekiel, the wine-press of the 
14th chapter of Revelation, and the Holy City New 
Jerusalem, we shall find the first to be a square ol 
25,000 reeds — the second, a square of 400 furlongs — and 
the third, also a square 400 furlongs, or 50 miles. And 
if we refer to the Greek original, we shall find that the 
word stadious has been injudiciously rendered furlongs ; 
whereby the mind of the reader has been directed to 
English common measure, instead of the ancient Roman 
measure; the former of 8 furlongs containing 5,280 feet 
per mile, the latter of 8 stadia 4864*64 feet per mile — a 
very essential difference. 

Now, so close are the analogies, as will be proved in 
our practical working, between the three square areas 
already mentioned, that, while the medium of other 
investigations gives 20*168 inches as the standard cubit, 
we decide for our standard, to take the cubit by deduc- 
tion from the Roman mile of 8 stadia, each 608*08 feet, 
and thence, the cubit being 19*45855999 inches, which 
will give the reed of 6 cubits, equal to 116-75135999 
inches; and 25,000 of such reeds will correspond with 
50 Roman miles* while 75 such miles correspond, as by 
Van de Velde's latest map of Syria published last year, 
with one geographical degree. And the correctness ot 
our views will, we believe, be fully proved, both when 
we apply the Roman mile along our line of construc- 
tion across the breadth of the promised land, and when 
we apply the reed and cubit to the measurements of 
Jerusalem and its temple. 

But thirdly : We require a bearing before we proceed 



CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES. 9 

with our construction, and, to find that — we fix bv lati- 
tude and longitude the sites of two p laces — Geba and 
Kimmon,as by careful consideration ot the best authori- 
ties; having been led to select these places, where it is 
written (Zech. xiv. 10), "All the land shall be turned 
as a plain from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem; 
and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place," 
that is, in Jerusalem's place, for in the passage it is 
stated that (Zech. xiv. 11) "Men shall dwell in it, and 
there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jeru- 
salem shall be safely inhabited." 

And fourthly : We require authority for the line of 
construction, and this we find, where it is written 
(Zech. i. 1G), "Thus saith the Lord, I am returned to 
Jerusalem with mercies, my house shall be built in it, 
saith the Lord of Hosts, and a line shall be stretched 
forth upon Jerusalem." 

And lastly; We require an actual centre of construc- 
tion, and this we find to be in Mount Zion, because it is 
written (Isaiah xxviii. 16), "Behold I lay in Zion for 
a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner, 
a sure foundation." 

Thus having obtained the boundaries of the land to 
be re-occupied, the standard measure, the bearing, the 
line, and the centre of construction, we would now, by 
your leave, proceed with our developments and proofs. 
Having drawn the connection between Geba and 
Eimmon, we stretch out a line of construction thiough 
the given centre of Mount Zion, and prolong the same 
to the great river Euphrates, the northern boundary. 



10 CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES. 

find down to the Red Sea, the southern boundary,. At 
the centre we construct a square of 50 Roman miles, 
which, according to Scripture, is called the Holy 
Oblation; and now, taking the same measure, viz., 50 
miles, in our compass, we step it northward along the 
line of construction, and find that there are exactly 
seven spaces of 50 miles each to the boundary at the 
Euphrates where that river abruptly turns away to the 
north; and stepping the same measure southward, we 
find that there are precisely five spaces of 50 miles each 
between the Oblation and the southern boundary, the 
Red Sea* 

Thus we have thirteen equal distances upon the breadth 
of the promised land, one for the Oblation and twelve 
tor the Tribes. And if, after having fixed the Oblation 
upon independent principles, we turn to the 48th chap- 
ter of Ezekiel and read off the resettlement as stated 
there, we find a most complete coincidence along the 
line of construction. We find Dan to the north, then 
the tribes in succession down to Judah, next to Judah 
the Oblation, and then the remaining five tribes in 
succession ending with Gad, all marked off by the per- 
pendiculars across the line of construction, and extend- 
ing from the East side unto the West, (the East Sea being 
the East side, as proved by Ezekiel, 47, 48,) entirely 
occupying all Syria and Arabia, (for the portion marked 
Dedan on Geographical Plan No. 1 goes to fill up the 
complement of Dan and Asher, the monstrous cantle 
cut out by the Persian Gulf), and only leaving the long 
triangular space below Gad unoccupied, concerning 



CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES. 11 

which it is written (Deut. xxxii. 20), "Blessed be he 
that enhirgeth Gad." 

Xow, these developments are, Ave trust, so literal and 
precise, that Ave may venture to ask your attention to 
another geographical argument which will greatly tend 
to illustrate our subject, and which leads us to make 
mention of the mode whereby Jerusalem will be made 
the chief cit\ of the whole earth, and also to speak of 
the internal measurement of the Oblation which Ave 
have obtained, and its developments for the inhabitation, 
commerce, and conservancy of Jerusalem delivered. 

In tAvo volumes, entitled " The Dead Sea, a new route 
to India, by Capt, Allen, R, X.," Ave have had an in- 
genious proposition for connecting the Mediterranean 
and the Eed Sea 5 by a canal across the plains of Esdra- 
elon, and clearing' out the old bed of the Jordan. And, 
under political and engineering reprobation, Ave knoAv 
of the plan of the Suez canal. But neither of these 
would give to Jerusalem the prominence and position 
which Avould be effected by an earthquake valley divid- 
ing the land of Syria through the Mount of Olives, as 
seen in our second geographical plan ; and concerning 
Avhich, Ave have a very curious quotation (Zech. xiv. 4- 
8) where it is written: that on a certain day "the 
Lord's feet shall stand upon the Mount of Olives which 
is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives 
shall cleave in the midst thereof, toAvard the east and 
toward the west— a great valley; and half of the 
mountain shall remove to the north, and half of it 
toward the south, and ye shall flee the valley of the 



12 CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES. 

mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach 
unto Azal ; yea, ye shall flee like as ye fled from before 
the earthquake in the clays of Uzziah, kino- of Juclah." 
And good reason for flying — for the Mediterranean will 
come rushing in. For Symonds and other surveyors 
have shown to us that the level of the Dead Sea is 1312 
feet below the Mediterranean, and if we draw a line to 
represent the major axis of the Mount of Olives, and di- 
vide that line by a perpendicular thereto, we shall find 
that on the East, the division immediately reaches the 
Dead Sea — and on the West, if prolonged so as to indi- 
cate the course of a very great valley, it will reach unto 
Ascalon, whereof the so changed into z produces Azalo, 
and cutting off the termination on will bring the valley 
even unto Azal on the coast of the Mediterranean, ful- 
filling the scripture where it is written, "Ascalon is 
cut off the remnant of their valley." In the plan pre- 
sented, the small blue lines show the valleys which 
bound the Mount of Olives to the north and south, 
while up the centre of the mountain runs the little val- 
ley of Achor, whereof it is written : "I will give thee 
the valley of Achor for a door of hope," and according- 
ly, while you may perceive that the dine A B shows 
the major axis of the mountain, and the line C D gives 
the perpendicular thereto, passing precisely over Asca- 
lon, we have taken the course of delineating the Straits 
of Azal, as we venture to term them, according to the 
present natural water lines, save only where it has 
seemed appropriate to cut into main channels, and so 
through water sheds. An earthquake valley being 



CURIOUS AIN'P ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES. 13 

opened, the waters of the Great Sea, falling eight times 
the depth of the falls ot the Niagara into the Dead Sea, 
will speedily cause its waters to rise ; and while a mighty 
whirlpool will be created in the vast basin of the Dead 
Sea, its rising waters will be quietly permeating the 
drift lands ol four thousand years which now conceal 
the southern bed of the Jordan. Yes, as surely as the 
waters of the Mediterranean shall enter the Dead Sea at 
an angle ; and admirably prepared as the geographical 
construction of the surrounding mountains is to pro- 
duce a grand gyration ; so surely will that gyration of 
commingled waters rise from a hollow swirl to a mighty 
overpowering swell. And when at length the waters 
stand upon an heap, and the sustaining power of gyra- 
tion ceases to uphold, the mass of water falls and sepa- 
rates, and strikes against the surrounding mountain 
sides; and now, "let the sea roar and the fulness there- 
of, the floods clap hands before the Lord, for He cometh 
to judge the earth and the people with His righteous- 
ness," and God will make a way in the wilderness and 
rivers in the desert. 

The tumultuous waters, finding no other outlet, will 
rush down the Jordan's bed, cleansing it as in a mo- 
ment. The Red Sea, rising 1 above its desolated shores, 

7 o 

will overflow by the Valley of Edon, completing the 
Straits of Azal into the long Red Sea, by the Gulf of 
Akabah. Thus Jerusalem, become the central city of 
the earth, will stand upon the highway for all na- 
tions. And the riches of the East, and ot the West, 
will there find their o-reat Emporium; and religion 



14 CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES. 

reigning above commerce, in those coming' happy days, 
'will till the long-despised down-trodden city with the 
glory of the earth; and "God will extend peace to her 
like a river; and the glory of the Gentiles like a flow- 
ing stream." 

Doubtless the ancient bed of the Jordan was the Val- 
ley of Arabah. That broad Valley " is one waste of 
sands, worked by the winds into driving clouds." Its 
boundary rocks "show as an old sea-coast, grooved by 
torrents and worn with water marks." And though, 
between the north wind and the south, its sands may be 
heaped to the height of 485 feet — and thus give drain- 
age to the north and south — vet, how soon would the 
swellings of Jordan, and the rush of the ocean waters 
by the Straits of Azal, sweep oft' the sand-drift of 4000 
years, and cause the commerce of ancient Petra, and of 
Tyre, that overthrown merchant city, to centre in the 
Emporium of the Holy City, the City of Jerusalem. 

The Sea — the Dead Sea — shall receive the living- 
waters of the Ocean ; and thus shall be formed the great 
pool of Jerusalem — the harbor for the commerce of the 
world. 

Having thus, as we trust, been enabled to show the 
possibility of Jerusalem possessing the great gate of 
commerce between the Eastern and the Western Hem- 
isphere, we would endeavor to add what we hope may 
be found to be a great confirmation of our last-men- 
tioned geographical development. For, as by scale 
and measure of the cubit, we construct, as in Plan No, 
2, the new temple on Mount Zion, which, on the given 



CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES. 15 

scale, would be one mile square — and if, also, consider- 
ing the conservancy of the great city ten miles square, 
around the same centre — we seek for an abundant sup- 
ply of waters, rising from a central spot, we shall find 
on turning to the 47th chapter of Ezekiel, a vision of 
waters rising from beneath the altar of the Temple, and 
issuing out from the threshold of the house Eastward, 
These waters, at a thousand cubits, going East, were 
ankle deep — at a thousand more they were knee deep — at 
three thousand they reached to a man's loins — but at four 
thousand cubits, behold " a river that could not be 
passed over, for the waters were risen" — the Straits of 
Azal were opened, the Dead Sea was risen, and the river 
shown was of waters to swim in, a river that could not 
be passed over. This last development is shown by 
scale and measure in our plan; and having, as we trust, 
been enabled to illustrate these curious combinations of 
Scripture with geography, we would be content with 
having demonstrated their possibility, leaving all on r 
hearers to judge of their probability ; only observing, 
that, as it is written, a fountain shall go forth of the 
house of Jehovah, and shall water the valley of Shittim; 
and, as its waters are described as going down into the 
Dead Sea and healing the waters, so that for the multi- 
tude of the fish thereof, the fishermen shall stand there- 
on from Engedi to Engallim, so, when upon our maps 
we find Shittim just above the Dead Sea, and Engedi 
and Engallim on its borders, we can no longer be led to 
accept what are called spiritualizing views upon such 
precise statements, and can but smile, when the multi- 



16 CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES. 

tilde offish, described as the fish of the Great Sea after 
their kinds, are attempted to be applied to believers in 
the truth of the Bible. 

We would, however, beg to detain your attention a 
few minutes longer, when, having completed our geo- 
graphical illustrations, we would turn to quote the pe- 
culiar sayings recorded in Scripture concerning the three 
Northern and the three Southern Tribes. 

Of Dan it is written, " He shall judge his people as 
one of the tribes of Israel — Dan is a lion's whelp." 
They were wont to place lions — we frequently place 
them — at entrances, and judges of old sat in the gate ; 
so Dan is in the northern entrance to the land. 

Of Asher it is written, " Let him dip his foot in oil, 
thy shoes iron and brass, and as thy days thy strength.'* 
Antioch is just within the border of Asher; and in his 
blessing, we read a just emblem of a modern railway, 
which, from Antioch, running up the Orontes, and tak- 
ing the first turn possible through the mountains on its 
right bank, would run its course parallel, yet sufficiently 
distant from the Euphrates, down to the settled sea- 
shore of the Persian Gulf. 

Of Napthali it is said, "0 Napthali! possess thou 
the west and the south" — harborage on the Mediterra- 
nean and on the Persian Gulf. 

Of Isaachar it is written, "Rejoice Isaachar, in thy 
tents." They (Isaachar and Zebulon) shall suck the 
abundance of the seas, and treasures hid in the sand. 
Isaachar is a strong ass, bowing down between two 
burdens." Our plan shows Isaachar at the harbor mouth 



CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES. 17 

in the head of the Gulf of Akaba. There all who come 
by water and all who come by land will pitch their 
tents and unload their land and sea burdens; the 
treasures hid in the sand-drifts of the Valley of 
Araba will speedily be developed, when the rush of 
the opening Straits of Azal shall establish forever 
the "river which shall make glad the city of God." 

u Zebulon shall dwell at the haven of the sea, and 
he shall be for an haven of ships, and his border 
unto Zidon." He as well as Isaachar, shall suck of 
the abundance of the seas and treasures hid in the 
sands." We look upon the geographical plan, and 
see Zebulon correctly placed. 

Lastly, of Gad it is written, " Blessed be he that 
enlargeth Gad;" " he dwelleth as a Lion" seated at 
the entrance; "and he provided the first portion 
for himself, because, there in a portion of the law- 
giver was he seated." We have already observed 
upon the customary positions of Lions at en- 
trances; the kings of Israel and Judah proceeding 
to judgment, put on their robes and sat in the gate; 
men surrounded by numerous sons are spoken of 
as not being ashamed when they speak with their 
enemies in the gate; and all the declarations con- 
cerning Gad point out his place as, by our plan, 
seated at the great gate of commerce; and Gad alone 
in respect of land which could be available beyond 
his actual portion in breadth as one of the other 
tribes, is capable of the enlargement spoken of 
where it is said — blessed be he that enlargeth Gad. 



18 CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES. 

Having now concluded all that we have to say at 
present concerning Syria and Arabia, we would just, in 
conclusion, speak a few words concerning the geo- 
graphical changes possibty consequent upon the effects 
of the mighty rush of waters created by the opening of 
the Straits of Azal. 

The rush of the waters, probably aided by a North 
wind, because Scripture says — "And with His mighty 
wind shall He shake His hand over the river of Egypt" 
— will sweep out the sands which now fill the old bed 
of the Jordan ; and as the Gulf of Akaba is straight, 
unci its sides steep, the sands will not rest there, but, 
in the quiet back eddy behind the roots of Sinai, there, 
among the narrows and the islands will the mass of 
sand be deposited; and when once the swell of the 
Red Sea is bounded thus, speedily the waters will fail 
from the tongue of the Egyptian Sea — the Sea of Suez ; 
and as by the maps of the survej^ors of the Red Sea, the 
bay of the Cossier is opposite to the Gulf of Akaba, and 
since, b} r the maps of the savants who accompanied the 
First Napoleon to Egypt, as well as by the maps of the 
Society of Useful Kuowledge, there exists an old river 
bed, stretching from Cosseir to the river Nile; the 
rush of waters, swollen as aforesaid, and pressed on 
by a mighty north wind, will push up the ancient 
river bed — plunge into the valley of the Nile, with 
heaps of accumlated mud and sand ; and in their reflu- 
ent course drao- after them the waters of the Nile — 
thus "beating off from the channel of the river" into 
the Red Sea. 



CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES. 19 

Our Geographical Plan, No. 1, shows this old bed 
taking oft* in a right line straight below Thebes ; and 
rushing waters in their refluent course would never 
pause to take the downward curve, but would go 
straight onward where thev found a straight course, as 
shown upon our map, presented for their exit. Thus 
the river of Egypt, as described in Scripture, would be 
smitten in the seven streams thereof. Egypt would be 
at once smitten and healed; for the lowlands would 
soon be freshlj 7 irrigated by means of wells and water- 
wheels, and the newly opened mouth of the Nile would 
bring all nations from the sources of the Blue Nile in 
Abyssinia; and all from the undiscovered wilderness of 
the White Kiver — from the great Mountains of the 
Moon in Africa, till 

At Jerusalem should be fulfilled 
That " Ethiopia spreads abroad the hand 
And worships ;" and its riches conies to swell 
The riches of the City of the Lord. 
And not alone the passage shall be made 
From Ethiopia to the long Red Sea, 
But the superfluous waters of the Nile 
Shall be redeemed above each cataract, 
And flowing westward o'er the waste of sand 
Shall through interior Libya be poured. 
For " they shall turn the rivers far away 
And I will cause thy rivers to flow like oil ;" 
And Science, guided by the hand of Faith, 
In duteous cognizance of Prophecy, 
Shall make the desert blossom as the rose, 
And fill the barren sands with teeming life. 

And now, having concluded a brief sketch of de- 



20 CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL DISCOVERIES. 

velopments in Syria, Arabia and Egypt, we would 
only, in conclusion, seek to note that when at length 
in these our days, so remarkable for the increase of 
knowledge — we have, after so many centuries of 
ignorance and guess work, such delineations of 
rivers and seas, correct latitudes and longitudes, 
and that wonderful fact correctly established by 
Lieutenant Symonds, and since by many others, of 
the actual great depression of the Dead Sea; surely 
we may say, that veracious dealing with geogra- 
phy, and taking words and things in their natural 
and straight-forward sense, we might expect to 
obtain some new developments of Scripture truth ; 
and along with them bright prospects for the hu- 
man race, and especial prospects for the chosen 
seed — the seed of Abraham. 

If we have failed in deducting these, at least let 
us say we have not failed for want of earnest de- 
sire after true deduction. If our adduced combina- 
tions are not realities, we submit to your faithful 
judgment; and if happily we have been enabled to 
produce aught worthy of acceptance, let praise be 
given where alone it is due. We desire only, hav- 
ing fulfilled our humble duty of exposition, to 
make our courtesy to our kind auditors, and thank- 
fully to retire. 



ISRAEL AND THE COMING ANTICHRIST. 



Br Key. Dr. Seiss, 



Everywhere and in all circles and teachings we hear 
about the Coming Man. The idea is treated somewhat 
jestingly, but it is not a mere fancy, myth or play on 
words. It expresses something which is inlaid in the 
theories and principles which, in one shape or another, 
are governing the thinking and expectations of the great 
mass of the most active and potent existing mind. The 
feeling and constant implication in the noisiest as well 
as the most subtle of modern demonstrations is, that 
nothing is settled ; that the great problems of human 
life, including society, government, philosophy and re- 
ligion, all yet remain to be solved; that what has hith- 
erto been taken as final authority is not final, and no 
authority at all ; that there remains to be wrought out 
a thorough reconstruction in all earthly affairs on other 
foundations than those which have served mankind in 
past ages ; and that there must come a new order of the 
social fabric, with new regulating forces, exhibiting 
another style of man in all the relations of life. And, 
as things now go, what the majority ordains and deter- 
mines will be. But when that Coming Man, who is 
thus developing, comes, he can be none other than the 
very Man of Sin, the Lawless One, the Antichrist, fore- 
seen and foretold by the holy prophets ; for the final, 
concentered maturity of human progress, cut loose from 
the time-honored laws and institutes of Jehovah, is the 



22 ISRAEL AND THE COMING ANTICHRIST, 

Antichrist. And with this manifest and inevitable ten- 
dency of things before our eyes, and the accepted think- 
ers of the world, including many among the most influ- 
ential in the professed Church of God, abetting the con- 
ceit as man's great hope, ignoring the proper Christ of 
our salvation, and virtually denying both the Father 
and the Son by the philosophies they entertain, what is 
it that we see but the preparing of the way for the An- 
tichrist and the manifest token of the nearness of his 
revelation? What the leaders of mankind thus unitedly 
covet and labor for as the goal of the race must come, 
and much sooner, perhaps, than they anticipate ; but 
the result will be the sorest plague the earth has ever 
felt, bringing with it all the disasters of the last great 
catastrophe. 

This trouble will be more or less upon all the people 
then living on the earth, but the description here re- 
lates more especially to the prophet's people, the seed 
of Abraham, whose fortunes the angel said (x. 14) he 
had come to make known. Hence Jeremiah calls it 
pre-eminently " the time of Jacob's trouble." The 
principal scene of it is " the Holy City," which can be 
none other than Jerusalem. The Antichrist enters into 
" the glorious land," plants "the tabernacles of his pal- 
aces between the seas in the glorious holy mountain," 
takes away " the daily sacrifice," and sets up the abomi- 
nation of the Desolater on some part of the temple ; all 
of which goes to identify Palestine as unmistakably the 
chief seat of these troubles. 

But this necessarily implies that the Jewish people. 



ISRAEL AND THE COMING ANTICHRIST, 23 

will then have been largely restored, with their temple 
rebuilt and their old ritual again established. This is 
a point upon which many doubt but upon which sacred 
prophecy is as clear and full as upon any other subject. 
That "race of the weary foot," which has been scattered 
and tossed anions the nations for these eighteen hun- 
drecl years, yet as distinct still as when Aaron was their 
priest or David their king, and never taking root in any 
land, is everywhere spoken of in the Scriptures as re- 
served for Palestine, and Palestine as reserved for it. 
And it is especially under the first three and a half years 
reign of the Antichrist that this return and re-establish- 
ment of the Jews and their ancient services will occur. 
Seven years is the Antichrist to reign, even the last 
seven of those seventy sevens divided out upon Daniel's 
people and the Holy City. That term begins in the 
conclusion of a solemn compact between him and many 
of the Jews (see chap. x. 27) — a league of friendship 
and mutual support and protection — a covenant in 
which the Jewish people agree to accept him as their 
great patron, king and Messiah, in fulfillment of those 
words of the Saviour, "I am come in my Father's 
name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in 
his own name, him ye will receive." (John v. 43.) 
The implication is, that under and in pursuance of this 
league the Jews will return, rebuild their temple and 
restore the old order, which has now been so long inter- 
rupted. Those first three and a half years of the Anti- 
christ or this pseudo-Messiah will accordingly be very 
prosperous years for the Jews, at least in a temporal 



24 ISRAEL AND THE COMING ANTICHRIST. 

point of view. Their population, wealth and enterprise 
will be enthusiastically directed toward the old home- 
steads of their fathers and their holy city. With a ra- 
pidity unprecedented the most wonderful improvements 
will spring up in Palestine and Jerusalem. Consider- 
ing the facilities of our times and the vast resources of 
this people, we can easily see that if word, duly certified 
and believed, were to sto forth from their wealthiest 
and most influential representatives that their Messiah 
has come with great authority, power and miracle to 
fulfill for them in Jerusalem all that they have this 
while been carnally dreaming about him, it would, in a 
few short years, transmute the city of David into the 
greatest center of interest, wealth and influence in our 
world . And so sacred prophecy fore-announces that it 
will be. 

But the idol shepherd of these deluded people will 
soon prove himself the monster Desolater, from whom 
they shall come into the severest tribulations ever expe- 
rienced by their race in any period of its existence. Ac- 
cepted as Messiah, he shall claim to be God, abolish the 
Jehovah-services which he assisted to restore, seize the 
temple for the worship of his own image, escheat the 
lands, to be given as rewards to his miscreant adherents 
for acknowledging his god of Mauzzim, and allow no 
one to bear rule, own property, buy or sell, except such 
as accept the branding of hand or forehead with his 
mark and the mark of his infernal deity. Those who 
were deceived into the acceptance of him as their Sa- 
vior, at the end of the first three and a half years will 



ISRAEL AND THE COMING ANTICHRIST. 25 

find themselves in covenant with hell and death, utterly- 
helpless in the hands of the most monstrous tyrant that 
ever lived, compelled to become undisguised and openly- 
branded worshippers of the devil, or lose every foot of 
ground they own, every office of authority they hold, 
means of livelihood, every protection in all that is dear 
in life, every possession on which the hand of wilful 
power can be laid, and life itself, except as it shall be 
secreted in the desolate places of the mountains and wil- 
derness, not daring to let itself be seen by any of the 
minions of the devilish power which then shall reign. 

Nor shall this state of things be only for a few days, 
weeks or months, but for full three and a half years. 
In not less than six different places, and in almost as 
many different ways, is this declared in the prophecies, 
including both Testaments. It is for "a time and times 
and the dividing of time" (Dan. vii. 25) — "It shall be 
for a time, times, and a half" (xii. 7) — " the holy city 
shall they tread under foot forty and two months" 
(Rev. xi. 2) — "the woman fled into the wilderness, a 
thousand two hundred and three-score days" — for "a 
time, and times, and half a time" (xii. 6, 14) — "and 
power was given him to continue forty and two months" 
(xiii. 5). All these passages refer to one and the same 
period of oppression and trouble under the Antichrist, 
and in each instance measure three and a half years, 
dating from the breaking of the league and the suspen- 
sion of the daily offering to the destruction of the mon- 
ster by the revelation of Jesus Christ. Our Lord min- 
istered on earth three and a halt years, and the Anti- 



26 ISRAEL AND THE COMING ANTICHRIST. 

christ shall enact his Satanic ministry for the same 
length of time. 

The effect of all this bitter experience is likewise 
stated by the angel. It is the old story over again. 
Human nature is the same whatever may be the times 
or administrations. People think if things were so or 
so, the truth would take hold on all hearts, and leave 
none so bad as to resist it; but they only dream. " If 
they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they 
believe, though one rose from the dead." In all ages 

7 o O 

and under all dispensations some get their eyes open 
and turn their hearts unto the Lord, but the multitude 
is ever blind and unconvertible. And so it will be even 
under the extraordinary scenes of the great tribulation. 
Many shall be purified and made white, and proved to 
be genuine people of God, Afflictions are sent to test 
and bring out our faith. Gold is refined and purified by 
taking it through the furnace. But the mass of men 
are made no better from their afflictions. Our own 
times illustrate how such things work. Everybody is 
bemoaning the sorrowful state of business and of affairs 
in general. The wails ot distress and lamentation meet 
us continually on all hands. Ills of all sorts are said to 
be multiplying. But are the people improved? Do 
they not live on as they always have done? Are not 
the masses much the worse for it? Look at the play- 
houses and shows and places of amusement, and see if 
they are not more thronged than ever. Observe our 
avenues and pleasure-resorts on Sundays, and note the 
expenditures and profanations of the Lord's Day by all 



ISRAEL AND THE CODING ANTICHRIST. 27 

ranks of society. Even professed Christians, who can- 
not spare a dollar for the cause of Christ, have plenty 
to spend on their lusts and vanities, and are only the 
more lavish and unscrupulous in ministering to their 
oavii whims and pleasures as times become more press- 
ing. The many are only hardened in crime instead of 
being humbled to penitence. And so it will be even 
when the great woes of God's judgments come. " The 
wicked shall do wickedly," and be only the more wicked 
and reckless, and shut their eyes and ears and hearts all 
the tighter against the truth. They •' shall not under- 
stand," because they love themselves and their own per- 
verse ways too well to admit better instruction, pre- 
ferring to risk everlasting damnation to the letting £o 
of a jot of their sins, till the great horrors of the Al- 
mighty's wrath engulf them for ever! So much, then, 
for this time of sorrows. 

It stands out, therefore, as a most thoroughly au- 
thenticated Scriptural truth that God is not yet done 
with the Jewish people as such. While this present 
dispensation lasts they are in a state of disinheritance. 
We are now living in "the times of the Gentiles." The 
Jew at present has no privileges beyond or above other 
men. If he will repent of his sins, lay aside his conceit 
and self-righteousness and believe on the Lord Jesus 
Christ as the only Savior of men, he can have salva- 
tion the same as any other mortal ; but he has no other 
rights and no higher privileges than the Gentile, on 
whom he looks with so much scorn and contempt. But 
when "the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled," and 



28 ISRAEL AND THE COMING ANTICHRIST. 

the dispensation that now is comes to its close, for 

the father's sakes he shall again come to the front. 

Michael the archangel shall stand up for him. And for 

those of his blood and lineage who shall be found 

written in Jehovah's book shall come a deliverance 

from all disabilities, of which there shall be no more 

forfeiture for ever. For 

" Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I will take the children of Is- 
rael from among the nations, whither they be gone, and will gather 
them on every side, and bring them into their own land : and I will 
make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel ; and 
one king shall be king to them all : and they shall be no more two 
nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at 
all : neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, 
nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions : 
but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places, wherein they 
have sinned, and will cleanse them : so shall they be my people, and 
I will be their God. And David my servant shall be king over them ; 
and they shall have one shepherd: they also shall walk in my judg- 
ments, and observe my statutes, and do them. And they shall dwelt 
in the land I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers 
have dwelt ; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their chil- 
dren, and their children's children for ever : and my servant David 
shall be their prince for ever. Moreover, I will make a covenant of 
peace with them ; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them : and 
I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in 
Uie midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle' shall be with them : 
yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And the na- 
tions shall know that I do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be 
in the midst of them for evermore." Ezek. xxxvii. 21-28. 



ISRAEL AND THE COMING ANTICHRIST. 29 

A mighty sea of ills and judgments, tears and recom- 
penses for sin, still lies between Israel and that conti- 
nent of peace and glory. God hath an account of in- 
dignation against that people for their impieties, which 
must first expend itself upon them and be paid off to 
the last, " Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and 
those of her that return with righteous visitations." 
God will put them in the crucible, and sit as a refiner 
and purifier of silver, to purify the sons of Levi and 
purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto 
Jehovah an offering in righteousness. By the tires of 
unexampled trial He will purge away their dross and 
take away all their tin, that He may restore their judges 
as at the first, and their counsellors as at the beginning, 
and realize the complete fulfillment of all for which the 
angel said the seventy sevens have been divided out 
upon that race. Chap, ix. 24. At thirty days, or at 
most seventy-five days, from the fall of the Antichrist, 
all that blessedness will have been reached, The con- 
summation shall have come for Isreal. 

Note now, in the next place, that the time of the 
Antichrist is also a time of blessed resurrections. It is 
sometimes supposed that the ancient people of God 
knew little or nothing about the resurrection, but this 
is a great mistake. Paul says that the Jews of his time 
allowed that there should be a resurrection of the dead, 
both of the just and-of the unjust. He declared before 
Agrippa that it was the great hope in all the incessant 
services of the twelve tribes of Israel to attain to the 
resurrection of the just. He also affirmed of some who 



30 ISRAEL AND THE COMING ANTICHRIST. 

suffered for the faith in former ages that they refused 
deliverance from torture, " that they might obtain a 
better resurrection. All through the Old Testament 
the references are numerous and plain touching the ris- 
ing up again of those who have fallen under the power 
of death and the grave. And here the voice comes to 
us from Babylon, attested by the angel of God through 
Daniel the prophet, that in the same period in which 
the Antichrist shall be revealed, "many of them that 
sleep in the dust of the eai Ji shall awake." It is not a 
figurative resurrection, but a resurrection of bodies, for 
spirits are not sleepers in dust of the earth. It is not a 
general or universal resurrection, but eclectic and par- 
ticular, for it is predicated only of "many" — many of, 
or many from among — leaving others of whom it is not 
predicated. This "many " as Eabbi Saadiah says, are 
the few, the lesser number, as where it is said " many 
brought gifts," " many of the people of the land became 
Jews," " many will entreat the favor of the prince." It 
seems to be implied in the passage that all the dead 
shall rise again in some form, at some day, but that at 
first only a portion of the sleepers in the dust shall 
awake. So in the first Psalm, though the wicked are 
to rise in their time, they do not rise or stand up in 
judgment with the congregation of the righteous. So 
also in the Apocalypse (xx.) there is a "first resurrec- 
tion," consisting of those who are to be priests of God 
and of Christ, and over whom the second death has no 
power; whilst "the rest of the dead live not again until 
the thousand years are finished." Hence some of the 



ISRAEL AND THE COMING ANTICHRIST. 31 

very best Hebraists here translate, "And many from 
among* the sleepers in the dust of the earth shall awake ; 
these [the many who awake] unto everlasting life; but 
those [the rest of the sleepers, who awake only at some 
other time] unto shame and everlasting abhorring." 
But whether this be the precise sense or not, the words 
assert a bodilj resurrection of many asleep in the 
ground, to whom this awakening is a high and blessed 
distinction. If it does not precede the resurrection of 
the wicked in point of time, as I am persuaded that it 
does, it certainly differs from and exceeds it in charac- 
ter ; for it is to everlasting life, whilst the other is to 
everlasting dishonor, abhorring and contempt. 

Great and awful has been the reign of death ! Who 
can tell the associations of grief and pain, of dismay and 
agony, of streaming tears and broken hearts, of blasted 
hopes and ruined plans, of speechless misery and shat- 
tered reason, of desolate homes and bleeding affections, 
which throng 1 around that chilling word — death! 

Everywhere and in everything is death — resistless, 
gloomy, all-levelling death. Its subjects mingle with 
the soil of every clime and crowd the hidden depths of 
every sea. Nearly two hundred generations, with all 
their power, have gone down under its dark dominion, 
without a single representative left. And every tick 
of the clock, through all the hours and days and 
nights and weeks and months and years, without ces- 
sation, is the death-knell of scores of mortals, swept 
from friends and homes to the silent world of them 
that sleep in the dust of the earth. 



32 ISRAEL AND THE COMING ANTICHRIST. 

But those sleeping myriads shall not sleep for ever. 
There yet shall come a trumpet-voice before which 
even death shall cower and all his bands dissolve. 
Kocky vaults and sepulchres, though sealed for ages 
and to the living lost, and all the deep incisions in 
i 'God's Acre," and all the hidden places whither the 
dead have been borne or laid away by loving hands, 
shall open to set their tenants free. All the dingy 
doors of the grave shall be lifted from their hinges, and 
all within be called to bid farewell for ever to all 
the mould and dampness of that solemn realm. For 
thus saith the holy apostle: "I would not have you 
to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are 
asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have 
no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose 
again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will 
God bring with Him. . . . For the Lord himself shall 
descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the 
archangel, and the trump of God: and the dead in 
Christ shall rise first : then we which are alive and re- 
main shall be caught up together with them in the 
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall ^\e 
ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one ano- 
ther with these words." 1 Thess. iv. 13-18. 



OUR REST SUPPLEMENT. 



—THE— 

MOST STARTLING, 

AND 
WONDERFUL DISCOVERY OF THE AGE 

IS THE 

Great Pyramid 

OF EGYPT, 

Revealing itself to us, not only as the oldest monu- 
ment in history, but also as 

A VAST TREASURE HOUSE OF KNOWLEDGE 

SCIENTIFIC, RELIGIOUS, HISTORIC AND PROPHETIC. 

A perusal of the following pages will aid the reader in ar- 
riving at a correct understanding relative to this most ancient 
and yet most modern wonder existent on the earth. 




INFIDELITY RAMPANT. 

We are living in precarious times — times foretold by the prophets of 
God — perilous times. Infidelity is making rapid strides, and presenting 
a bold front. Vast numbers of so-called free-thinkers (?) are gleefully 
boasting of their freedom from orthodox restraints, and indeed 'from re- 
straints of any sort, and openly denying the existence of God, Christ or 
a Bible that is inspired in any other sense than is Shakespeare, Byron and 
other human productions. 

An open warfare is being waged against religion, nnd a disposition is 
manifest on every hand to ignore all written revelation, and exalt science 
above everything else in heaven or earth. 

At this important juncture, when men would trample under foot God 
and the Bible, and declare that science undermines both, the Lord has 
seen fit to remove the vail which has covered for over 4,000 years 

THE GREAT PYRAMID OF EGYPT, 

when lo ! it reveals itself to us as a witness to the Lord of Hosts, telling 
us in language unmistakable that the God of the Bible is the God of 
science also— that true science and the Bible are not antagonistic but in 
harmony with each other, both having one common origin — the Maker 
of Heaven and Earth whom we worship. 

As is well-known, the accepted theory concerning the object for which 
the Great Pyramid was built has been, that it was designed as a vast 
mausoleum for an Egyptian king, and it has been looked upon as a 
monument of the tyranny and folly of him who built it, whereas the truth 



OUR REST SUPPLEMENT. 3 

is as is now being revealed from time to time, that it never was intended 
for any such purpose, but is an embodiment of scientific truth in its high . 
est development, as well as a prophetic witness whose testimony accords 
in every instance with that of the Bible. As a consequence 

THE INFIDEL IS MET AND DEFEATED 

on his own ground. In this strange and hitherto mysterious building, 
we find science represented even in its most intricate points, — science in 
such minute detail, that even the nineteenth century, with its wonderful 
appliances for reaching exact conclusions, has not been able to equal it. 
But coupled with this record of science is a chronological and Biblical 
record of events — great events in the world's history, which at the time 
the Pyramid was built were all future, hence were clearly prophetic. 
Such a combination of exact scientific truth and prophecy, at a period 
[as scientists themselves admit] long before even the rudiments of scien- 
tific truth were known to the world, must have been effected by a wisdom 
other than human — hence super-human — Divine. This mighty monu- 
ment of God therefore stands athwart the infidel's path, an obstruction 
he cannot pass, a witness for God and the Bijple in an age when, both are 
rudely thrust aside. 

LOVERS OF TRUTH 
will find in the study of the Great Pyramid much to satisfy their thirst. 
Its stone record is perfectly alive with truths such as the world needs to- 
aay — truths which were embodied in its rocks by a.n inspired Architect, 
whose abounding wisdom enabled him to complete the greatest wonder 
of all ages. 

BIBLE STUDENTS 

will find such wonderful confirmations of Holy Writ — such exact dupli- 
cates of certain things mentioned there, and such a clear prophetic out- 
line, and Messianic record, that they cannot fail to see that it is of God. 
In this respect therefore the Great Pyramid may be said to be a great 
faith-strengthener, and who is therein this age of skepticism but may 
pray as Peter did of old, "Lord increase my faith ?" 

Not only are scientific and Bible men studying this old structure, but 
of late considerable interest has been awakened among 



4 OTJR BEST SUPPLEMENT. 

FREEMASONS. 

One of these declares that it is " the key- stone of the lost art, which 
interprets the grand science of living as a Masonic Lodge." " For 
ages " says he, " the Great Pyramid has been this rejected stone. The 
world has not known it, and the builders of science have thrown it away 
amidst the rubbish of speculative possibilities." He adds that " it is a 
veritable lodge of freemasonry." 

The subject of the Great Pyramid has assumed such proportions of 
late, owing to the great research and study which has been brought to 
bear upon it by all minds in this country and in England, that it is im- 
possible to compress into a small space a tithe even of the discoveries 
made. By way of awakening an interest in the subject in the minds of 
our readers, however, we will rehearse a few of the points which are 
abundantly demonstrated. 

THE SCIENTIFIC FEATURES OF THE 
GREAT PYRAMID 

are, as already stated, wonderfully exact, and consist in part of the fol- 
lowing : , 

It squares the circle ; tells its own latitude ; its own age ; the true 
shape of the earth ; the distance of the sun ; the law of gravitation ; the 
density of the earth ; the days in a year ; the length of the precessional 
cycle ; and contains a standard of weights and measures, temperature, 
etc. 

THE CHRONOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS FEATURES 
OF THE GREAT PYRAMID 

are none the less remarkable, and may be enumerated as follows : 

The symbolic use of an inch for a year ; the distinct length of the 
period between the flood and the exodus ; the length of the Mosaic dis- 
pensation ; the true A. D. ; the length of the Christian dispensation ; 
the change to come at its close ; the relationship existing between the 
ark of Noah, the ark of the covenant, and the Pyramid coffer ; the 
agreement between the brazen sea of Solomon's Temple and a part of 
the king's chamber ; the type of Christ and the Church ; the Sabbath, 
etc., etc. 



OUR RfiST SUPPLEMENT, 6 

THE APPROACHING END OF THE AGE. 

In speaking of this we know the prejudice that exists in the minds of 
many at the present day, growing out of the fact that so many wild 
theories concerning the end of the world have been set afloat in years 
past, and persistently urged by enthusiasts of the Advent school, but 
shall we therefore ignore all the manifest and God- given signs which in- 
dicate the approaching end of the present Gentile age ? To do so would 
be foolish, if not absolutely perilous. 

Not ouly does the Great Pyramid indicate a soon-coming change in 
earth's affairs, but earnest Bible students, of all denominations, the 
world over, are rapidly reaching the same conclusion from a Bible stand- 
point. To expect that the Christian world as a unit will believe this, or 
that the great body of religious teachers will admit it, is to expect what 
will not be realized. The world has too firm a hold at the present day 
upon the Church, and has succeeded in charming her to such an extent 
that nothing we fear but the ushering in of God's judgments will ever 
break the spell, and bring her to a realizing sense of how far she has 
wandered from her " first love." 

The Bible clearly teaches however, that our Lord will come again, and 
that He will take unto Himself His waiting and expectant Bride — the 
redeemed Church. She will be removed from earth to heaven, and 
during her absence the earth will be cursed with the presence, in full 
manifestation and power, of Anti-Christ. During this season there 
will overtake this earth a " time of trouble such as there never was since 
there was a nation to that same time." So testify the prophets of God. 
The negligent and worldly-minded portion of the Church will undoubt 
edly have to pass through this terrible season of tribulation, and in this 
way be "purified and made white," while the prepared and faithful por- 
tion of the Church — those who have heeded the admonition " Be ye also 
ready" will be caught away " to meet the Lord in the air," having been 
" counted worthy to escape all these things, and to stand before the Son 
of Man." 

These are some of the events which we believe are not far distant, 
judging from present signs everywhere manifest. These must transpire 
before the ushering in of Millennial peace and blessedness, under the 
reign of Messiah and His saints. 



6 OUR REST SUPPLEMENT. 

That we are not alone in these conclusions, will be seen on perusing 
the following extracts from well-known Evangelists and others : — 
Says the American Presbyterian : — 

" Everything seems to make ready for no common crisis, no ordinary issue. 
. . . . Statesmen's hearts literally fail them for fear of the things coming 
on the earth at the present hour. 11 

Says the Protestant Churchman : — 

''Till the glorious coming of the Savior, we may expect nothing but suc- 
cessive overturning^ of men and earthly things. 11 

Says George C. Needham, the Irish Evangelist : — 

" I believe the thousands of scattered Christians whose hearts have grasped 
this truth, will be heard declaring as with united voice, The Lord is at hand. 
They can no longer keep silence. This truth proclaimed in the Spirit's power 
will save the Church from shipwreck. 11 

Says Henry Varley, another Evangelist : — 

"We are near the end of this dispensation. . . The coming of the Lord in 
the clouds, to take His Church to be with Himself, is the Christian's hope 
O, to be ready! In the Master's name I tell you to be ready ! I charge you 
to prepare for His coming. 11 

Says Rev. Samuel Garratt : — 

ik We are living in the very age towards which all eyes have been directed as 
those of the closing days of the Church's conflict as long ago as the days of 
Luther. 1 ' 

Says D wight L. Moody : — 

lt I believe He is yonder, getting His guest-chamber ready, and the moment 
it is ready, those clouds shall roll away and He shall come, and we shall be 
caught up together to meet the Lord in the air. So there may be some in this 
audience who may never taste death." 

Says Rev. C. H. Spurgeon : — 

" I am afraid we cannot hope for much better times until the Lord Jesus 
Christ comes a second time. Often do I cheer myself with the thought of His 
coming. The shout shall be heard, Allelujah ! allelujah! the Lord God Om- 
nipotent reigneth ! For that day I do look ; it is to the bright horizon of that 
second coming that I turn my eyes." 

Says the Christian Statesman, in a late number : — 

2 Great changes in the map of Europe seem to be impending. That they 
can be accomplished without war on a still larger scale seems altogether un- 
likely. Long-cherished expectations of believing students of prophecy seem 
to be nearing their fulfilment." 

Reader, are you ready for the Master's coming? Are you separated 



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from the world and its allurements, or do you relish its frivolities ? Soon 
the separating time will come. Will you be taken, or will you be left ? 
These are great and momentous questions, and must be decided by your- 
self. This is no dream of an idle fancy, but a terrible reality. The po- 
litical, social, and ecclesiastical world at the present time all give evi- 
dence of a sweeping change soon to come, and what that change will 
be no one can tell who is not enlightened by the Prophetic Word. 

In conclusion, we urge you to examine God's Word for yourself. See 
whether or not it teaches what we say, and whatever course others may 
pursue, let your steps be directed towards the Kingdom of God. 

OUR REST. 

is the title of a monthly periodical which is devoted 

1. To the exposition and illustration of Great Pyramid subjects, in 
eluding those most recently discovered. Diagrams are introduced in 
each number for the better understanding of the subject. 

2. To the exposition of Bible truth, especially in the field of prophecy, 
as bearing upon our own times and times yet future. 

3. To the elevation of the Church of Christ, by the advocacy of a 
more consistent walk — a more thorough separation from the world, and 
a consecration to the Master's work, preparatory to our speedy meeting, 
and everlasting union with Him. 

The publisher of Our Rest earnestly solicits the help of all true 
Christians, especially those to whom God has granted light concerning 
the present Laodicean spirit of the Church — the corrupt state of society — 
and the manifest signs of our Lord's approach. The hour has come 
when all such enlightened believers should work earnestly together for the 
enlightenment of others. Extraordinary efforts and willing sacrifices should be 
made by all in this direction ; and then, we doubt not, the Lord will bless our 
efforts, and give us fruit unto eternal life. 

If circumstances warrant it, the publisher desires at the beginning of a new 
volume, to issue Our Rest weekly. There is a great field for its labors, and 
abundance of excellent matter for its pages, providing the subscription list can 
be increased sufficiently to warrant the change. If the friends of Jesus— those 
who love His appearing, will lend a helping hand in this direction, we see no 
reason why this cannot be effected. Many new friends can be raised up if all 
iro to work with a will. 

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Trial Subscriptions for 3 months, will be received at the same rate ! 

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